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PRESS RELEASE

Red Hat Enhances Security and Virtualization Experience with Latest Version of Red Hat
OpenShift
New features increase security, flexibility and simplify operations across both virtual
machines and containers

March 3, 2025 — Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today
announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift 4.18, the latest version of the industry’s
leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes. Red Hat OpenShift 4.18
introduces new features and capabilities designed to streamline operations and security across
IT environments and deliver greater consistency to all applications, from cloud-native and AI-
enabled to virtualized and traditional.

According to the Gartner® press release Top Trends Impacting Infrastructure and Operations for
2025, revirtualization/devirtualization is one of the top trends facing organizations for 2025. As
shifts in the virtualization market require organizations to reevaluate their virtualized infrastructure
and strategies, for many it is an opportunity to implement technologies that will both deliver on
their current IT requirements as well as help them meet the needs of tomorrow. The latest
enhancements to Red Hat OpenShift are designed to simplify the management of virtual
machines and containers while providing organizations with a common infrastructure to bring their
generative AI (gen AI) plans to life.

Enhanced virtualization experience

Red Hat OpenShift 4.18 introduces new virtualization enhancements that improve networking,
simplify storage migration, and streamline VM management. These updates reduce operational
complexity, enhance flexibility and improve resource efficiency -- making it easier to manage and
adapt virtualized environments as needs evolve.

 VM-friendly networking provides support for common VM networking use cases with the
general availability of user-defined networks, making it easier for users to get their
virtualization platform up and running. Also available with OpenShift on AWS and Red Hat
OpenShift Service on AWS, this allows users to have similar networking capabilities for
secondary networks on AWS as they do on-premises, allowing for more hybrid cloud
flexibility.
 VM storage migration, available as a technology preview, now includes additional
enhancements that allow for non-disruptive movement of data between storage devices
and storage classes while a VM is running, enabling users to be more agile as storage
needs change.
 Tree-view navigation, available as a technology preview, enables users to logically group
VMs into folders which allows for a more granular grouping. Additionally, with logical
grouping, also available as a technology preview, users have a quicker and easier way
to navigate between VMs using a single click.